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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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NNSA awards BWXT $1.5B defense fuels contract
The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration has awarded BWX Technologies a contract valued at $1.5 billion to build a Domestic Uranium Enrichment Centrifuge Experiment (DUECE) pilot plant in Tennessee in support of the administration’s efforts to build out a domestic supply of unobligated enriched uranium for defense-related nuclear fuel.
Technical Session|Sponsored by ETWDD
Monday, November 18, 2024|3:15–5:00PM EST|Canaveral 1
Session Chair:
Travis W. Knight
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Christopher M. Perfetti
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Radiological Assay of Burrowing Animals
3:15–3:35PM EST
Evan Godbehere (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), James Pierce (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Kip Wheeler (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Jolyne Worthy (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Paper
Event Sequence Quantification and Consequence Development of the Full Scope Dynamic Probabilistic Risk Assessment for PULSTAR Research Reactor
3:35–3:55PM EST
Lauren Kohler (NCSU), Noah Etter (NCSU), Nolan Ritchie (NCSU), Mihai Diaconeasa (NCSU)
Investigating a Fast Static Fueled Molten Salt Reactor for Wasteburning
3:55–4:15PM EST
Matthew Louis (Georgia Tech), Nathan Tanzosch (Georgia Tech), Jaden Minnick (Georgia Tech), Alicia Borel (Georgia Tech)
Utilizing AP1000 TPBAR Optimization to meet Fusion Energy Tritium Demand
4:15–4:35PM EST
A. Rodriguez (TAMU), B. Harris (TAMU), C. Ulteig (TAMU), M. Munoz (TAMU), W. Reed (TAMU)
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